Type design question

Dylan Thurston dpt@math.harvard.edu
Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:24:11 -0400


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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:23:30PM +1000, Andrew J Bromage wrote:
> G'day all.
>=20
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:36:46PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
>=20
> > However, I would be sure to distinguish between an inner product space
> > and a vector space.
>=20
> That's true.  If you're after a completely generic solution, this might
> be an issue.

Err, but you yourself raised exactly the reason why you want to make
this distinction (and put inner products in their own class): you
sometimes want different inner products on the same set of vectors.

Peace,
	Dylan


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